Harmony School of Science- San Antonio

Size

Harmony School of Science- San Antonio is the 2nd largest of Harmony Public Schools - South Texas' 3 elementary schools; its 602 students are 12.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 619; Harmony School of Science- San Antonio is close to their typical size.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is kindergarten with 99 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 27, against an average of 60 per grade. This year grade 8 has 73% fewer students than kindergarten (27 against 99). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 63 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 48.3% here and 85.3% across Harmony Public Schools - South Texas. Black students are next, at 18.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

42.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.5% across Harmony Public Schools - South Texas and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 35.1 full-time-equivalent teachers for 602 students, Harmony School of Science- San Antonio has 17.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 602 students would have about 40.7 teachers, so Harmony School of Science- San Antonio has 5.6 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Harmony School of Science- San Antonio is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Galm Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in Northside ISD. Within 10 miles there are 105 other elementary schools, 38 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.